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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
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Financing assistance from the Navy for their sailors
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Comment by Jody Gault on April 30, 2009 at 12:55pm
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Thank you everybody. He is trying to find out today from USAA. I sure hope he gets it.
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Incase this is helpful to anyone in the future.....he has USAA already (his auto insurance). They have turned him down-remember how I said since he's so young he has no credit. That's now the 2nd bank he's been turned down by because BOA (his own bank) was the same deal. What are our young military to do? I just thought there'd be a way for him to get more assistance, but apparantly not. I know it's because of lending being so very tightened (I used to work for SunTrust) but it doesn't make it any less hurtful. As a last resort I'm going to walk in the Navy Fed CU with him when he gets here and see if by talking in person with someone and myself knowing the questions to ask that perhaps we can get somewhere with this. Otherwise he keeps his 1999 convertible.
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Thanks, Sharon, unfortunately us co-signing for him isn't an option. You see we had shining credit until December. I suffered job loss from the bank in November and because of that we fell behind in our mortgage for the first time in our lives. I'm sure in our current situation that no one would grant a loan with our name on it as I know when I worked at SunTrust if any of the applicants credit was scarred it was an instant decline. You have to have perfect credit in today's economy to be granted a loan of any kind. I am going to walk into Navy Fed to with him to talk with a real person (instead of him doing the online thing that they all recommend) and see if that brings any hope.
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Thanks, Lisa. As we've exhausted other options tried, I am taking him to Navy Fed tomorrow. Hoping to get a bank officer that can give him advice before he tries applying and taking a 3rd hit on his credit (which he has none of). That interest rate is wicked but it's a starting point and if he gets it he can refinance, perhaps later, at a better rate. I'll let you all know the outcome-hopefully it's a good one.
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Well we went to Navy Federal Credit Union today. Not much luck there. They said he'd prob have to have a co-signor and we can't do that right now with our recent credit issues done to my job loss. The story is the same pretty much every where...he can prob get the loan with a co-signor so hubby's asking my father in law if he'll co-sign. Car Max will do 1st time buyer but he needs 30% down and he doesn't have that much. Oh my gosh this is hard.
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Comment by CCR on May 4, 2009 at 12:47am
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Don't know where he is located, but don't let him use Angelo's Cars in San Diego. My son had really good credit history(starting establishing it when he was 16 and had 3 jobs) but still got a very high rate with Navy Fed Cr Union.
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Just an update (incase anybody checks here and has the same situation)......Justin did, finally buy a car last night, however it couldn't be done on his own at all. 19 years old, no credit at all and hasn't worked for the Navy for 1 year. If he'd been employed with the Navy for 1 year many would've done a 1st time buyer program. They wouldn't consider that he'd worked at his previous job for 2 years. He had to have a co-signer in today's tight lending market. Carmax would've done a 1st time buyer loan in just his name but he would've had to put a down payment of $5,500 down on his $16,000 vehicle (he only had $2,000). He got a 2008 Huyndi Solantra Limited-wow, you talk about a nice car!
Again, just hoping this helps somebody else wondering about this situation.
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